Low-frequency hybrid earthquakes near a magma chamber in afar: Quantifying path effects

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 5 A, 2010, Pages 1892-1903

  Coté, Dustin M ^a   Belachew, Manahloh ^a   Quillen, Alice C ^a   Ebinger, Cynthia J ^a   Keir, Derek ^b   Ayele, Atalay ^c   Wright, Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; DIKE INTRUSION; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; FLANK ERUPTIONS; FREQUENCY CONTENTS; HIGH FREQUENCY; IMPEDANCE CONTRAST; INTRINSIC ABSORPTIONS; INVERSE SCATTERING; LOW FREQUENCY; MAGMA CHAMBER; SIGNAL AMPLITUDE; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; TWO PARAMETER; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; VOLCANO TECTONIC EARTHQUAKES;

LEVEES; SCATTERING; VOLCANOES;

EARTHQUAKES;

AMPLITUDE; BASALT; EARTHQUAKE; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAGMA CHAMBER; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOGRAPH; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; VOLCANISM;

AFAR;

EID: 77957735323     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090111     Document Type: Article

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